rebooting 370DLE

I thought I'd ask Supermicro about the problem. Here is their response.
Technical Support wrote:
>> Hi,
>> We do have a new beta bios that fix the headless boot. That mean no video
> card needed. Here is the beta bios. It also has the Serial Redirect
> Console build in under Advanced in the bios. So you can use Terminal screen
> to boot up your system.
>> <<3dl0317.rom>> <<fwhflash70.zip>>
> Make sure you use Flash not AMIflash.
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Hodge [mailto:jared_hodge at iat.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:58 AM
> To: support at supermicro.com> Subject: [Fwd: rebooting 370DLE]
>> I thought I'd let you know that there have recently been some concerns
> on the 370DLE's BIOS which were voiced on the Beowulf user's mailing
> list. Since I'm looking at buying several of these, I thought I'd give
> you a chance to address these issues. The main concern is the ability
> to boot without a video card (without an integrated video adapter
> either). This would be advantageous in my line of work. A few other
> issues are also voiced below. If you would like to respond to these
> (perhaps you have a newer version of the BIOS coming out?) you can reply
> to me and I will forward your comments on to the mailing list. Thanks
> for your help.
>> Josip Loncaric wrote:
> >
> > "Michael T. Prinkey" wrote:
> > >
> > > I assembled several systems using the 370DLE sometime ago. The only
> > > solution was to downgrade to some 1.1 BIOS release that I found on their
> > > ftp server. Eventually, I ended up putting a PCI video card in each of
> > > the systems to avoid the BIOS downgrade and reintroducing whatever bugs
> > > the newer BIOS had fixed.
> >
> > We also had to downgrade the 370DLE BIOS to R1.1 because the newer BIOS
> > file 3L3C122.ROM (1/4/2001) leads to halt on reboot. The machines would
> > go down normally, then lock up instead of rebooting, and we had to press
> > the "reset" buttons on every reboot. This was unacceptable, so we went
> > back to BIOS R1.1 which reboots normally without manual intervention and
> > does not cause other problems for us.
> >
> > BTW, we also use cheap PCI video cards in our 370DLE systems.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Josip
> >
> > --
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> >
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> Jared Hodge
> Institute for Advanced Technology
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 3925 W. Braker Lane, Suite 400
> Austin, Texas 78759
>> Phone: 512-232-4460
> FAX: 512-471-9096
> Email: Jared_Hodge at iat.utexas.edu>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: 3dl0317.rom
> 3dl0317.rom Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> Encoding: base64
> Download Status: Not downloaded with message
>> Name: fwhflash70.zip
> fwhflash70.zip Type: Zip Compressed Data (application/x-zip-compressed)
> Encoding: base64
> Download Status: Not downloaded with message
--
Jared Hodge
Institute for Advanced Technology
The University of Texas at Austin
3925 W. Braker Lane, Suite 400
Austin, Texas 78759
Phone: 512-232-4460
FAX: 512-471-9096
Email: Jared_Hodge at iat.utexas.edu